CVE-2006-2275 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-2275
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Description: Linux SCTP (lksctp) before 2.6.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via a large number of small messages to a receiver application that cannot process the messages quickly enough, which leads to "spillover of the receive buffer."

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26433 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-302-1 TRUSTIX http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0026 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA20716 Secunia Advisory: SA21465 Secunia Advisory: SA22417 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0575.html CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-200.htm http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7c3ceb4fb9667f34f1599a062efecf4cdc4a4ce5 BID 17955

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